Reforms to the way in which the value added tax is paid by digital companies selling their wares across borders are designed to clamp down on tax minimisation ruses. Yet they may also prove a headache for small online businesses.

Rainer Bauböck, professor of social and political theory at the European University Institute in Florence, tells Toby Vogel why citizenship is an important factor in immigrant integration and outlines some recent changes to the concept of EU citizenship.

Rainer Bauböck, professor of social and political theory at the European University Institute in Florence, tells Toby Vogel why citizenship is an important factor in immigrant integration and outlines some recent changes to the concept of EU citizenship.

Carmakers have cried foul about EU plans to limit carbon dioxide emissions from cars, but green groups say that such measures can have impressive results.

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In 2004, the Council adopted a temporary rule that made it possible to give preference to candidates for the new member states in recruiting for EU posts, for a transitional period that ended on 31 December 2010.

Cyprus was a special case among the ten countries that joined the European Union in 2004, and it is a special case still – the only member state of the EU that does not have full control over all its territory.